As we step into our 70th year, we have great hopes of growing better and bigger in managing national cyber security. The government has announced a number of initiatives like Digital India, Startup India etc – each initiative is designed to add to the efforts of the thousands of InfoSec professionals across the country.
With this in mind, IndiaWatch reached out to InfoSec pioneers, leaders and professionals across the country for their thoughts about growing Cyber Security in the country. They have shared their best wishes for the nation and their top most wish for cyber security in the country.
The listing below is in no particular order!
| Picture | Name | My Wish …. |
 | Sastry Tumuluri | I wish that every basic programming class includes secure coding. I also wish that security monitoring becomes a commodity service. |
 | Pavithran Rajan | Bring in a privacy law, declare the critical infrastructure IT assets for only indigenous companies and have a framework like In Q Tel to ensure they remain Indian. The privacy law should address national security issues by ensuring data generated in India is stored in India |
 | Alok Vijayant | Where the transaction is without fear and the integrity of data is held high, where information is free; where the cyber world has not been broken up into silos by narrow standalone systems ,where data comes out from the depth of credibility; where tireless striving stretches its arm to provide resilient and robust system; where clear streams of AI has not been corrupted through malpractices; where the mind is let forward by thee into ever widening internet of things, into that heaven of cyber my countrymen let this country awake |
 | Vishal Salvi | Wish you and all of us a great 70th independence day. My single most wish is for India to produce great leaders for Cyber Security as they will shape the future of Cyber Security , not just in India but globe. |
 | Sameer Ratolikar | I would like to have string cyber security policy enforcement , sensitisation and formation of a cyber ORG structure in Govt agencies |
 | Jiten Jain | Cyber experts should lead cyber security initiatives not babus who don’t even know how to open an email |
 | Samir Datt | Thanks for the wishes, which I warmly reciprocate. Independence Day is celebrated to commemorate our Independence. I too dream of an independent India, where the tremendous potential of our people is genuinely harnessed to produce world class cyber security products indigenously. Something to make us all proud, something that will make us regain faith in ourselves and our country men. |
 | Rajeev Chauhan | I wish to have robust networks and clear cut responsibilities for failure. |
 | Vineet Kumar | Creating an ecosystem for cyber startups and social enterprises. |
 | Santosh Khadsare | I wish to see everyone take information security seriously and consider it as a necessity. I want to see India spending on training and awareness rather than out souring to other countries. |
 | Brajesh Singh, IPS | Our nation exists in Cyberspace too, in a realm without borders, each one of us is a digital defender. Let’s be aware of our responsibilities in Cyberspace |
 | Amit Sharma | Today lets pledge to make our nation to be the most powerful, prosperous and greatest nation of the world JAI HIND |
 | Naresh Chaudhary | On the eve of independence day Its my appeal to every citizen , parents, teachers and government that its high time that we start talking about “cyber sanskar” as we use to talk about family sanskar, We talk about “netiquettes” as we use to talk about social etiquettes, we enforce “internet surfing license” on express internet highway as we enforce driving license. Lets build a cyber-safety as our culture, lets start looking at cyber security as a part of life. Sooner the better. JAI HIND |
 | Geetha Nandikotkur | Clean processes and security consciousness among one and all for building a cybersecure ecosystem |
More to come .. and this page will be updated as these stalwarts respond. In the meanwhile please do share your wish as a comment.
